Selectism | Around the Web | Remebering 9/11

The drop-dead sexy box that you're peering at above is the Lyr, a hybrid (tube-MOSFET) headphone amplifier that claims to have zero feedback and more power than most headphones will ever have use for. This guy's pumping out six solid watts into 32 ohms, while loads of rivals are dabbling in...

Before Steampunk: Star Wars' 1800s Robots (above) "This pair of early rescue masks, shown above, dates from between the mid-1800s and World War I. They look a bit familiar, right? Almost 100 years before Darth Vader and C-3PO hit the big screen in "Star Wars" in 1977, these two smoke helmets...

Removing the words from the mark, bringing in the green, and taking the Siren out of her ring. For forty years she's represented coffee, and now she is the star." ( dieline )
02. Tea House by David Jameso
"This Tea House by David Jameson makes an unusual and ephemeral addition to a...

TONY tracks down the city's top platters, plus nearby sports bars where you can catch the game." ( TONY ).
02. Boston: Three Bakeries in Jamaica Plain
"How do you define a bakery? If a shop produces its own bread, croissants, cookies, and some manner of breakfast bread that serves as an...

I've also included streams for charity singles, Christmas-related music videos, and other new holiday bits (with links, where applicable, to download the rest of the album or Christmas compilation). We've posted some of these earlier this month, but most are new. Enjoy..." ( stereogum )
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02. Paul Barbera – Love Lost (above)
"My name is Paul Barbera, I'm a photographer. Love – Lost is an ongoing Narrative... Working on it as I travel, I will add stories from time to time." ( lovelost )
03. Marcelo Burlon
"It seems like everybody already knows Marcelo Burlon....

Instead of an international star, he selected the then-relatively unknown pair, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe of Shim Sutcliffe to create his residence in a ravine in the posh Toronto neighborhood of Rosedale." ( Daily Icon ).

They're out there, wondering if they're weird for listening to it all year around, while those who don't like it grouse openly and loudly, particularly when radio stations start playing it before Thanksgiving (as if it'll make the turkey feel unloved). But Christmas is a subject for songs,...

Killer paper backdrop illusion for your web cam
"If you were on a video conference call with Michel Gondry, we're pretty sure he'd join in with one of these. Architect Ryuji Nakamura created the Midget & Giant paper house as part of a workshop at DESIGNEAST 01 late last year." ( core77 )

As the designers explain, ESLICE is exactly like a hearty piece of rye bread – satisfying, affordable, comforting, and simple. The thin profile home takes design ideas from traditional Latvian barns, uses machine cut wood to build the small structure and comes delivered completely furnished...